Women in German Studies
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WIGS CONFERENCES
24th ANNUAL CONFERENCE
28-30 June 2012
University College Dublin
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23rd ANNUAL CONFERENCE
11-12 November 2011
University of Leeds
- WIGS 23rd Annual Conference 2011
Friday 11 November
14.00 |
Postgraduate Training |
| Details to be announced. | |
16.00-17.30 |
Panel 1, Memory and Politics |
Leeds Humanities Research Institute |
Nicole Sparwasser (Leeds): 'British press representation of dissident activities in the GDR' |
| Jen Grogan: (Nottingham): 'The lost Heimat in East German expellee monuments' | |
| Karina Berger (Leeds): 'Questioning the notion of division: blurred boundaries between public and private memories of German wartime suffering during the 1970s and 1980s' | |
18.30 |
Public Reading by Sabine Deitmer & Gisa Kloenne |
Heart Centre, Headingley |
Talking about feminism and the detective novel are Sabine Deitmer, author of Bye Bye Bruno, Auch Brave Mädchen tun's and a series of detective novels featuring Beate Stein; and Gisa Kloenne, author of Der Wald ist Schweigen, Unter dem Eis and Farben Der Schuld, which feature Judith Krieger. |
20.30 |
Dinner in Headingley |
Saturday 12 November
9.00 |
Registration: Heart Centre, Headingley |
9.30-10.30 |
Panel 2, Mediaeval and Early Modern Studies |
| Anne Simon: 'Writing the World from Inside: the Letters of Katerina Lemmel' | |
Elizabeth Andersen (Newcastle): ‘Printing and Distributing Low German Devotional Writing. The Case of Lübeck’ |
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10.30-11.00 |
Coffee |
11.00-12.30 |
Parallel Panels: Hybridities in German Culture |
Panel 3 |
Leila Mukhida (IGS, University of Birmingham), ‘An Examination of Subversive Laughter in Angelina Maccarone’s Alles Wird Gut’ |
| Áine McMurtry (Durham): ‘Voicing Displacement in German-Language Writings by Yoko Tawada' | |
| Kate Roy: ‘Making Space: Innenräume and a Politics of the Private in German popular literature by “Muslim” women writers’ | |
Panel 4
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Cathy Gelbin (Manchester), ‘Poetics versus Genetics: German and Austrian Jewish Narratives of Contemporary Israel’ |
Silke Schwaiger (Southampton): ‘Challenging the Literary Canon? Authors of the Second Migrant Generation in Austria’ |
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Annette Seidel Arpaci (Columbia), ‘Sincerity and Sisterhood? Hip-Hop, Gender and 'Islam' in Germany’ |
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12.30-14.00 |
Lunch and WIGS AGM |
14.00-15.30 |
Parallel Panels: Contemporary Theatre & Literature |
Panel 5 |
Nóra de Buiteléir (Galway), ‘Theatre as a Site of Interethnic Reconciliation: The Case of Südtirol/Alto Adige’ |
Sinéad Crowe (Limerick), ‘Old Age in Contemporary German Theatre’ |
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| Simone Schroth (Newcastle): '"Wie ich es schaffte, keinen Mann zu kriegen'': The Email Novel as 'Frauenliteratur'?' | |
Panel 6 |
Claudia Gremler (Aston), ‘”Ich habe zu viele Geschichten in mir, die machen mir das Leben schwer”: Analysing the “intertextual depth” in Judith Hermann’s Sommerhaus, später’ |
Gillian Pye (UCD), ‘Belongings: materiality and identity in recent German women’s writing’ |
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Emily Jeremiah (Royal Holloway, University of London) ‘The Case of Helene Hegemann: The Girl in German Literary Culture’ |
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16.00-17.30 |
Panel 7: Literature from the Nineteenth to the Twentieth Century |
Jutta Kling (St. Andrews, Tübingen), ‘Queer Eye for the Straight Guy: Re-reading Theodor Fontane’ |
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Dagmar Paulus (Nottingham), ‘Remembering Two Mad Women: Adalbert Stifter’s Turmalin (1852) and Wilhelm Raabe’s Im Siegeskranze (1866)’ |
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Caroline Summers (Manchester), ‘”An East German Virginia Woolf?” The Appropriation of Christa Wolf by Feminist Narratives in Translation’ |
Programmes and Reports of Past Conferences:
- WIGS 18th Annual Conference 2006
- WIGS 17th Annual Conference 2005
- WIGS 16th Annual Conference 2004
- WIGS 15th Annual Conference 2003
- WIGS 14th Annual Conference 2002
- WIGS 13th Annual Conference 2001
- WIGS Millennium Conference 2000
- WIGS 11th Annual Conference 1999